The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for February 20, 2022

the “Egyptian Cheer”?

Cutting off the tongue hurt even more.

He’s making fun of the old Giza.

I thought it was because the Sphinx stinkx.

Aha. Now we knows.

The British are coming the British are coming….

It is a folk tale that the army of Napoleon Bonaparte blew it off. It is estimated to be broken off between the 3rd and 10th centuries CE.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza#Missing_nose

The canon blast theory was debunked. Here is a wiki with some history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza

The real story is the Sphinx just wanted to spite his face.

Good thing the Sphinx was lying down, the way that cannon’s pointed, he could have lost something a little more important.

And apparently we’re supposed to understand that after the cannon shot the Sphinx got up and walked around to the other side of the Pyramids and lay down where we find it today?

It was at one time “common knowledge” that Napoleon had his cannons shoot off the nose of the Sphinx, but Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr, In 1378 AD was reputed to have done it, but even that is open to debate.

Bob Weir: My dog has no nose.

Phil Lesh: No nose—how does he smell?

Bob Weir: Bloody awful!

- heard on several occasions during technical problems while on tour in Europe 1972

Rats. I had always assumed a much bigger sphinx had come along and played: Got your nose!

Notice how the current Sphinx, sans schnoz, no longer has such a snarky attitude.

I never gave it much thought but had assumed it was just time that eroded it. Thanks for the history.

Actually, many Egyptian artifacts have broken noses, and it is speculated that they were deliberately removed for religious reasons or because of superstition that noses give some sort of evil life force to the bearer. Fact is, no one really knows how it happened and all the explanations are strictly wild assed guesses though some are SWAGs, SCIENTIFIC wild assed guesses.

What do you call a sphinx with a nose and no body?

Nobody KNOWS!

Aha! So that’s what happened to it. Great idea. Thanks for the chuckle. Great way to start a day.

Actually it was Jack Nicholson’s stunt double in “Chinatown”.

My girlfriend reminded me of the Sphinx. French soldiers shot her nose off.

Welcome to 2022. Authorities are using DNA to track down the soldier so his relatives can be sued over damages to the Sphinx.